Category: Play

  • Little Red Riding Hood Re-enactment

    Little Red Riding Hood Re-enactment

    Action story telling with puppets and dolls. My little one lives them so have all sort of stories re-enactments.

  • Stay home ideas 16

    Stay home ideas 16

    Decorate biscuits with icing and sprinkles and make a cardboard make up salon with faces for kids (girls might like this more) to paint. Mine put lipstick, eye shadow, made longer lashes and coloured hair.

  • Painting curbs & stepping stones

    Painting curbs & stepping stones

    Have you got any curbs, garden fences or stepping stones to paint? Get the kids to do it and you can finish off with the final touches. Finish off with a spray if you use normal acrylic on your stones. This way it will last longer.

  • Sink or float experiment

    Sink or float experiment

    Get a transparent bowl, fill it with water and put things in it to observe if they float or sink. Better done in the garden to look for things. Learn about density and porosity and why things float. After the game this ended up being a witch potion

  • Cindirella re-enactment

    Cindirella re-enactment

    After Tangled it was clear that I had to do more of the same. So here’s our version of Cindirella.

  • Stay home ideas 15

    Stay home ideas 15

    Feeding snails, cardboard nail salon and sleeping bag play.

  • Frog swamp

    Frog swamp

    Here’s a messy play idea with the bog mud made of flour, water and a bit of food colouring. Add lizards, frogs, plants, stones and plastic insects.

  • Rapunzel re-enactment

    Rapunzel re-enactment

    If you have Tangled fans, here is a fabulous play idea. Get some dolls to act the story. She played for hours!!!

  • Stay home ideas 14

    Stay home ideas 14

    Make a tent (I used tarpaulin on a washing line and some pegs for securing it in the grass) a polly pocket foamy pool party and dot patterns with kitchen roll or toilet paper.

  • DIY Hologram projector

    DIY Hologram projector

    What a cool thing to be doing with your home schooled kids. Use some plastic foil from used packaging (clear fruit punnets or toiletry gift boxes) to make a piramid with no base or top. See enclosed photo. You need 4 shapes that you will stick together with transparent tape. Each shape had a 6…